Metal Garden

Item: Metal Garden
Rating: 96
Author: VaporLens

Last updated: 2025-11-21

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Summary

Immersive and haunting atmosphere
Compact, high-value experience
Rich megastructure worldbuilding, exceptional level design
Engaging, fluid core gameplay
Striking and unique art direction
Weak, unpolished combat; poor enemy AI

Emotions

Satisfaction30%Enjoyment7%Excitement7%Appreciation6%Disappointment6%

Reviews (sample size): 1391
Helpful reviews: 82%
Unhelpful reviews: 18%
Protest reviews: 0%

96%
Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
4%
Helpful reviews with negative sentiment

Positive points: 4432
Negative points: 1054
Gameplay points: 870
Perf. points: 25
Rec. points: 706
Misc points: 443

Sentiment × Playtime

review counts

Bucket	Neg	Pos
≤ 2h playtime	231.5% Avg playtime 1h	51434.6% Avg playtime 1.6h
> 2h playtime	80.5% Avg playtime 2.7h	94063.3% Avg playtime 3.9h

Velocity

review pace

Avg/day	6.1 rev/day
Last 30d	9.2 rev/day
Quarterly	224 rev/qtr
Days covered	244.4 days

Point	Description	Importance
Immersive & Haunting Atmosphere Description Players consistently praise the game's atmosphere, describing it as incredibly immersive, bleak, desolate, and haunting. This unique ambiance, often enhanced by its brutalist and dystopian aesthetic, is considered a primary strength and a major draw for the experience. Importance 100%	Players consistently praise the game's atmosphere, describing it as incredibly immersive, bleak, desolate, and haunting. This unique ambiance, often enhanced by its brutalist and dystopian aesthetic, is considered a primary strength and a major draw for the experience.	100%
Compact, High-Value Experience Description The game is consistently praised for its concise length, often completable in a single sitting, preventing it from overstaying its welcome. Players feel the experience offers exceptional value for its price, providing a memorable and fulfilling adventure that respects their time. Importance 93%	The game is consistently praised for its concise length, often completable in a single sitting, preventing it from overstaying its welcome. Players feel the experience offers exceptional value for its price, providing a memorable and fulfilling adventure that respects their time.	93%
Rich Megastructure Worldbuilding Description The game excels in creating a deeply intriguing world centered around a vast, decaying megastructure. Its lore is subtly delivered, often through environmental storytelling, allowing players to piece together mysteries and speculate about its ancient, dystopian history, a concept that strongly resonates with fans of similar sci-fi works. Importance 77%	The game excels in creating a deeply intriguing world centered around a vast, decaying megastructure. Its lore is subtly delivered, often through environmental storytelling, allowing players to piece together mysteries and speculate about its ancient, dystopian history, a concept that strongly resonates with fans of similar sci-fi works.	77%
Exceptional Scale & Level Design Description Players are consistently awed by the game's sense of scale, which is masterfully conveyed through its expansive and intricately designed environments. The level design is praised for being clever, non-linear, and encouraging exploration, making players feel small within the immense megastructure while providing memorable vistas. Importance 76%	Players are consistently awed by the game's sense of scale, which is masterfully conveyed through its expansive and intricately designed environments. The level design is praised for being clever, non-linear, and encouraging exploration, making players feel small within the immense megastructure while providing memorable vistas.	76%
Engaging & Fluid Core Gameplay Description Despite often being described as simple, the game's core loop of combat, platforming, and exploration is consistently fun and satisfying. Gunplay is tight and responsive, and platforming sections are well-integrated, even with limited enemy variety, thanks to clever encounter design. Importance 70%	Despite often being described as simple, the game's core loop of combat, platforming, and exploration is consistently fun and satisfying. Gunplay is tight and responsive, and platforming sections are well-integrated, even with limited enemy variety, thanks to clever encounter design.	70%
Striking & Unique Art Direction Description The game's distinct art direction, characterized by a brutalist aesthetic and effective use of low-poly graphics, is a major highlight. Players are captivated by its unique visual style, which enhances the world's atmosphere and sense of scale, often described as beautiful in an unconventional way. Importance 62%	The game's distinct art direction, characterized by a brutalist aesthetic and effective use of low-poly graphics, is a major highlight. Players are captivated by its unique visual style, which enhances the world's atmosphere and sense of scale, often described as beautiful in an unconventional way.	62%
Nostalgic Classic FPS Homage Description Many players feel the game successfully evokes the spirit and gameplay of beloved early 2000s first-person shooters like Half-Life and Halo. It delivers a similar blend of atmospheric exploration, tight gunplay, and level design, creating a sense of nostalgia for a golden era of FPS gaming. Importance 61%	Many players feel the game successfully evokes the spirit and gameplay of beloved early 2000s first-person shooters like Half-Life and Halo. It delivers a similar blend of atmospheric exploration, tight gunplay, and level design, creating a sense of nostalgia for a golden era of FPS gaming.	61%
Rewarding Player-Driven Exploration Description The game strongly encourages and rewards player exploration, offering numerous optional paths, secrets, and environmental details to uncover. Players appreciate the freedom to wander and the genuine sense of discovery, which is enhanced by the game's minimal hand-holding. Importance 35%	The game strongly encourages and rewards player exploration, offering numerous optional paths, secrets, and environmental details to uncover. Players appreciate the freedom to wander and the genuine sense of discovery, which is enhanced by the game's minimal hand-holding.	35%

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